Hearts at Home
Hearts at Home.....
This use to be a really weird thought for me..as a child my dreams were to grow up find prince charming and be the old lady in the shoe with a million kids...well I did meet Prince Charming, although the fairy tales leave out one thing, Prince Charming wasn't always "Charming" after he swept me off my feet. Then adding kids to the whole mix didn't make things much easier! I don't have a million kids but at times my five little monkeys may seem like it.
I can remember being asked to teach a workshop at one of the women's conferences and I was real excited, but then I realized that I was being asked to teach on the Joys of mothering preschoolers and balancing it all out with home and marriage...I realized that month as I prepared for my message that I didn't have much joy in being married or even having children..I began to ask God why...for this is what I had always wanted to do with my life from a very early childhood age...that next year..God began to speak to my heart about my value as a mother and that I really needed to be a stay at home mom who devoted her time to loving her husband and raising Godly children and caring for her home...You see I thought I had to be a women who had it all..the house with the picket fence, the perfect little children, the husband who looked the part, a career and education that was outside my home. I came across a website as I began searching for something more to this life of stay at home mom...and I cam across www.hearts-at-home.org and it changed my thoughts, feelings and most of all my hearts response to the call of being home as a profession. It was so inspiring to me to find a ministry that was devoted to training moms in the home to transfer their minds to see how God viewed them...it was very powerful....I am now not the perfect at home professionally...but I do value the gift God has given me in my Prince Charming and my five beautiful children. I have learned that I am more of worth here available to my husband and children then I could ever be in the work place.
My hearts prayer for you today is that you too would be that women who delights in her role of being wife and mother. If you have never checked out the hearts at home ministry, please do so..they have many God inspired resources and encouraging things to help you in your journey as a professional Home Maker! Plan and make it a priority to attend one of their conferences. they are so powerful, filled with so many gifted and hilarious speakers...women who are like you, wives, mothers, godly women!
All week I will be posting a comment on my blog about the hearts at home ministry. Also I will be running a contest for one week only...starting today ending Monday Sept. 22nd. Enter for a chance to win a free book from Hearts At Home Ministry!!!
Contest:
1. I want to hear from you..."How do you keep your marriage a priority in the midst of being a homemaker and caring for children?" The mom with the most creative idea wins!
Enter for a chance to win;
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Labels: Hearts At Home Day 1
posted by totaljesusgirl @ 5:17 AM
6 Comments:
Hey Heidi,
Kristen gave me your blog page... hmmm, I would have to say that I come up with silly things for us to do to just have fun.. like recently we had a game war where we played every game in our house and kept score and whoever won gets a particular prize.
We're still in the process of finishing our war though, so no one's won yet. :)
Hello Heidi,
Just a quick note that I'll be happy to sign the book that you give away.
Mark and I keep our marriage a priority by having a weekly date. Sometimes it's hard to arrange, but we set a time and work hard to protect it. And we try to do something fun together--maybe take a walk, have a picnic in the park, or just go to Barnes and Noble bookstore, look at "old house" books together and then put the books back on the shelf! We just try to have some uninterrupted time together each week!
okay, so I am excited to get ideas from everyone else...but, bobby and i TRY to have dates with one another. Even when we don't have the money to go out we will watch a movie and have dessert together after the kids go to bed. We have a few times ordered in from his favorite restaurant and lay a blanket on the floor and light candles to have our own candle lit dinner.
Daily I make sure to give him lots of hugs and tell him i love him as often as possible and we try to be discrete in pattin' each other ;) (like ron and betty wiseman) That's always fun! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
We have a journal we write back and forth in. Last Christmas my husband gave me a blank journal with a beautiful note about how when we were gone someday he wanted our kids to know how crazy in love he was with their mother. So we write about our dates, or when one of us does something special for each other. Sometimes we stick in love notes we write to each other etc. I love finding our journal-becuase I know that means he has writen something for me.
I know this may sound 50's housewifeish, but every morning I fill up his to-go coffee mug, make his lunch, and slip a little note into it saying how much I love him or loved last night (hehehe). With 2 under 3yrs it can get pretty hard to get away so we try to plan in house date nights. Put the date on the calendar and then after the kids are in bed, we cuddle or do something together.
I try hard to remember that someday my kids will be gone and I still want to love the man I am with. Its like the old Wayne Watson song, Watercolored Ponies says, "Baby what will we do, when it comes back to me and you? They look a little less like little boys every day. The pleasure of watching our children grow is mixed with the bitter cup of knowing that Watercolored Ponies will someday ride away!"
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